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Secret Valley
Secret Valley is a children's television adventure series created by Terry Bourke and Roger Mirams. It was produced by the Grundy Organisation from Australia in association with Telecip from France and Televisión Española (TVE) from Spain. It was first aired in 1980 on the ABC in Australia, and in 1982 on TVE 2 in Spain. It spawned a spin-off series in 1986 titled Professor Poopsnagle's Steam Zeppelin.
Secret Valley is a fictitious children's holiday camp in Bildarra which has been transformed from a run-down ghost town into a resort. The children who work and visit the camp often find themselves in battle against a gang of bad kids – Spider McGlurk and his gang from "Spider Cave". These battles usually feature flour bombs and other food-related missiles and everyone inevitably ends up in a big mess.
Spider McGlurk and his gang are not the biggest threat to the peace at Secret Valley. Secret Valley is also under threat of closure by the local council, and property developer William Whopper (also known as 'WW') played by Hugh Keays-Byrne.
It was produced by Roger Mirams who also produced the spin-off series Professor Poopsnagle's Steam Zeppelin in 1986, amongst other programs and series.
The 1980 pilot was directed by Howard Rubie and written by Terry Bourke. It was filmed in late 1979 with a budget of $100,000.
The series was aired in New Zealand, Greece, Italy, the UK on ITV in the 1980s, and the Netherlands in 1982/1983 by KRO television. It was also broadcast by the Dutch TV station Kindernet in 1989/1990. It was also aired in South Africa in 1983 on the state-owned SABC and translated in Quebecois French for the state-owned francophone branch of the CBC.
The series was a co-production between the Grundy Organisation from Australia, Telecip from France, and Televisión Española from Spain. Some of the child actors in this show were real-life siblings – Beth, Miles and Simone Buchanan. The series was at Smokey Dawson's ranch in the Sydney suburb of Terrey Hills and also at the theme park El Caballo Blanco.
Roger Mirams originally intended to make a series called The Ghost Town Gang at Smoky Dawson's ranch at Ingleside, which had been used to film Luke's Kingdom and Lost Islands. However bushfires went through it, and there was no ghost town so the show became Secret Valley. Thirteen days after the fire, filming started again. Producer Mirams says the overall theme of Secret Valley is depicted through kids doing their own thing in what usually is an adult world.
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Secret Valley
Secret Valley is a children's television adventure series created by Terry Bourke and Roger Mirams. It was produced by the Grundy Organisation from Australia in association with Telecip from France and Televisión Española (TVE) from Spain. It was first aired in 1980 on the ABC in Australia, and in 1982 on TVE 2 in Spain. It spawned a spin-off series in 1986 titled Professor Poopsnagle's Steam Zeppelin.
Secret Valley is a fictitious children's holiday camp in Bildarra which has been transformed from a run-down ghost town into a resort. The children who work and visit the camp often find themselves in battle against a gang of bad kids – Spider McGlurk and his gang from "Spider Cave". These battles usually feature flour bombs and other food-related missiles and everyone inevitably ends up in a big mess.
Spider McGlurk and his gang are not the biggest threat to the peace at Secret Valley. Secret Valley is also under threat of closure by the local council, and property developer William Whopper (also known as 'WW') played by Hugh Keays-Byrne.
It was produced by Roger Mirams who also produced the spin-off series Professor Poopsnagle's Steam Zeppelin in 1986, amongst other programs and series.
The 1980 pilot was directed by Howard Rubie and written by Terry Bourke. It was filmed in late 1979 with a budget of $100,000.
The series was aired in New Zealand, Greece, Italy, the UK on ITV in the 1980s, and the Netherlands in 1982/1983 by KRO television. It was also broadcast by the Dutch TV station Kindernet in 1989/1990. It was also aired in South Africa in 1983 on the state-owned SABC and translated in Quebecois French for the state-owned francophone branch of the CBC.
The series was a co-production between the Grundy Organisation from Australia, Telecip from France, and Televisión Española from Spain. Some of the child actors in this show were real-life siblings – Beth, Miles and Simone Buchanan. The series was at Smokey Dawson's ranch in the Sydney suburb of Terrey Hills and also at the theme park El Caballo Blanco.
Roger Mirams originally intended to make a series called The Ghost Town Gang at Smoky Dawson's ranch at Ingleside, which had been used to film Luke's Kingdom and Lost Islands. However bushfires went through it, and there was no ghost town so the show became Secret Valley. Thirteen days after the fire, filming started again. Producer Mirams says the overall theme of Secret Valley is depicted through kids doing their own thing in what usually is an adult world.